Autism is probably caused by a highly complex series of interactions between genes and the environment. We are ……….. pouring millions of dollars into research. We already have identified 1,000 genes and hope to find more potential environmental triggers. Everything from antidepressants in the water supply to air pollution has been identified as possibly contributing to …
Today there ia an article in the Washington Post that announces that gun deaths are as common as car deaths for the first time ever. Every week there seems to be another mass shooting in America, and the reaction is the default ceremonial sentence, “Our thoughts and prayers are with …..”. This is all the …
More than 1 million people in the US are expected to find a drone under the tree this year. Australia and the UK are also looking at a bumper month for drone sales, thanks to falling prices and growing interest in the technology. Excitement about drones has been mounting, thanks in part to plans by …
From: Georgetown School of Medicine Student Affairs To: Students at the School of Medicine – Subject: Letter to our Muslim Brothers and Sisters at the School of Medicine Dear students, faculty and staff of the Medical School, Peace! In collaboration with all of my fellow chaplains, across this University, I wish to stand in solidarity …
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In America there is a full-scale party political assault on political correctness. The Republican debate last night was full of it, half the problems of the country being put down to the allegedly pusillanimous obeiscence to it on the part of the government, and, increasingly, students. The following is a comment by AC Grayling, Master …
